Western Bulldogs
Western Bulldogs's greatest players, ranked by an era-fair rating built from real career stats, Brownlow votes and honours — plus the club's complete premiership history.
all-time VFL/AFL record · 1925–2026
Biggest win: 128 pts v North Melbourne (2021).
premiership years
2016 · 1954
Western Bulldogs — club history & record
Western Bulldogs have won 2 VFL/AFL premierships between 1954 and 2016, the most recent in 2016. The club has also finished runner-up 2 times, losing the Grand Final in 2021 and 1961.
Across 1925–2026, Western Bulldogs have played 2,117 senior matches in the data here for a record of 974–1121–22 — a 46.5% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 96. Their biggest recorded victory is a 128-point win over North Melbourne in 2021.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest Western Bulldogs players are led by John Schultz (100), Gary Dempsey (100), Marcus Bontempelli (100), Jack Collins (97) and Scott West (97). In all, 1,061 players who pulled on the Western Bulldogs jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest Western Bulldogs players
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